The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[Complete Turf Care]

Looks like you could use a grapple on the fence job.

 

[Hay Dude]

Looks like you could use a grapple on the fence job.

I have one of those

A tracked skid steer with a mulcher is what I’ve always wanted……

 

[BackRoad]

From many of your photos with overgrown pasture edges, a SkidSteer /mulcher setup would pay for itself and provide you with off season income.

I suspect Nov to Mar you could keep very busy, plus with this cycle of less annual snowfall, you could work through the winter.

And it could be a one man operation. You already have the trailers and trucks needed to support the business...

 

[BackRoad]

...and the customer base...

 

[LouNY]

The mulcher heads do a very nice job. Unfortunately in stoney areas they are very high maintenance. Rocks and the carbide teeth don't go together very well.

 

[Hay Dude]

I want one so bad….
“Hand to hand combat” getting old…..

Could also used it to load bales. I could drive it up on the GN trailer and go from field to field.

I better be careful I don’t talk myself into this.
I actually test-drove this one. I believe this is one of the heaviest & most powerful skid loaders you can buy.

But then you have to buy a mulching head for it, too.

 

[scootr]

My friend had a hay business and a welding business. The built a bale squeeze for his bobcat. And his wife (an equipment operator) delivered small bale hay with the SS. Worked great for them.
My 773 Bobcat and RUT BH is a formidable brush buster. Neighbor asked me to cut some 5 - 6ft stuff. I raised the BH and lowered down on the brush thus reducing the amount of long sticks on the ground.

 

[LouNY]

Myself I lean more towards the JCB lineup. My nephew has a Cat skidsteer with the tracks over the tires. Even with the added lift from the tracks with anything but the stock bucket on it can be difficult to exit the machine. It takes maneuvering to get the arms down low enough to get out of the cab by opening the door as it will not clear the implement. He actually ends up removing the door much of time to make it usable.

 

[scootr]

Climbing in and out of the SS is a young man's game - Keeps me from using it as much as I could. The other thing that makes me choose the forklift or the tractor are the reduced work area visibility (I installed 2 rearward cameras), and the slow rough ride...

 

[Gator6x4]

I want one so bad….
“Hand to hand combat” getting old…..

Could also used it to load bales. I could drive it up on the GN trailer and go from field to field.

I better be careful I don’t talk myself into this.
I actually test-drove this one. I believe this is one of the heaviest & most powerful skid loaders you can buy.

But then you have to buy a mulching head for it, too.


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A expensive purchase. A high GPM and Horsepower Skid Steer purchase alone would give one sleepless nights. Adding a Mulching Head coupled with maintenance cost would drive one to start drinking.